NEW DELHI: Xiaomi’s latest smartphoneRedmi 4 which is exclusively available on Amazon.in recorded sales of 250000 units within 8 minutes of launch. The e-commerce site received more than 10 million hits per minute.

The smartphone witnessed over 2.3 million ‘notify me’ alerts from customers following the launch announcement on 16 May 2017.

“We are thrilled to have witnessed such a remarkable customer response for the Redmi 4. We had witnessed over 2.3 million ‘notify me’ requests from our customers,” said Noor Patel, Director Category Management, Amazon India.

“Redmi 4 is our effort to provide a premium experience in the budget segment and we hope it is experienced by lakhs of customers. The love from our Mi Fans has been tremendous and it has allowed us to do a hat-trick of selling 250,000 units each in the first sales of all our smartphones this year,” said Raghu Reddy, Online Sales Head, Xiaomi India.

The device is available in two variants, the 2GB RAM + 16 GB storage variant priced at Rs 6999 and the 3GB RAM + 32 GB storage variant priced at Rs 8999.

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